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Trigger Does Not Fire on View When Updated Through ADO

[I may post this question within the ASP section as well.]

The trigger in question works perfectly in Query Analyzer, but when I call it from my ASP page through ADO (code below) the trigger isn't being fired.  I get the error:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80004005' Cannot insert or update columns from multiple tables.

For clarity -  tblAuthor is a view which I'm trying to use to replace the real tblAuthor (renamed to tblAuthor_Org)

The code on the ASP page is striaght forward:
Set adoCon = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set rsCommon = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
adoCon.connectionstring = strCon
adoCon.Open
strSQL = "SELECT * FROM tblAuthor where Author_ID= 5"
rsCommon.CursorType = 2
rsCommon.LockType = 3
rsCommon.Open strSQL, adoCon
With rsCommon
        strRealName = "Christy M"
        .Fields("Real_name") = strRealName
        strHomepage="www.url.com"
        .Fields("Homepage") = strHomepage
        .Update
End With

I really don't want to have to change the way the query is being called with ADO.  I'm trying to implement the joining of two databases of information by using a view to grab pieces for each.  If I can replace the table tblAuthor with a view called tblAuthor I'd be set but first I need to be able to update the view (ie- use a trigger).

View:
CREATE VIEW dbo.tblAuthor
WITH  VIEW_METADATA
AS
SELECT     auth.Author_ID, auth.Group_ID, auth.Username, auth.Real_name, auth.User_code, cia.Password, auth.Salt, email.Email AS Author_Email,
                      cia.WWW AS Homepage, auth.PM_notify, cia.CIAID
FROM         DB1.dbo.tblAuthor_Org auth INNER JOIN
                      DB2.dbo.Email email ON email.Email = auth.Author_email INNER JOIN
                      DB2.dbo.CIA cia ON email.CIAID = cia.CIAID

The simple trigger I'm using to test:
CREATE TRIGGER dbo.TestUpdateTrigger ON [dbo].[tblAuthor]
INSTEAD OF Update
AS
Update tblAuthor_Org SET Real_name=(SELECT CIAID FROM inserted) WHERE Author_ID=(SELECT Author_ID FROM inserted)

The trigger will actually be changed to DO something if I can get this to work.  As it is it would simply prove that data from the second database was being moved into the first

I found a knowledge base article on Microsofts site that I thought for sure would fix the problem http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q304096 Unfortunately it still didn't work after adding WITH  VIEW_METADATA (the MS suggested fix) to the Create View statement.

Thanks in advance for the help.  Please let me know if any additional details are required.
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>>Cannot insert or update columns from multiple tables.<<
Change your Trigger as follows:

CREATE TRIGGER dbo.TestUpdateTrigger ON [dbo].[tblAuthor]
INSTEAD OF Update
AS
Update      tblAuthor_Org
SET            Real_name = Inserted.CIAID
From      tblAuthor_Org
            Inner Join Inserted On tblAuthor_Org.Author_ID = Inserted.Author_ID
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My appologies.

I did not intend to leave this unanswered.